V. S. Naipaul Quotes

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over

V. S. Naipaul

• Death
• Victory
• Mood

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Blood
  • Vampire
  • Imperialism

• I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Pregnant
  • Even

• I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Thought
  • Name

• I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

  

  Wendell Wilkie
  • Know
  • Day
  • Lose

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'

  

  Ted Danson
  • Grateful
  • Cheers

• The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Society
  • Product
  • Boredom

• I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Never
  • Shoes
  • Furniture

• The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Risk
  • Ability
  • Happen

• New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Long
  • New

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Love
  • Hope
  • For Her

• One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Marriage
  • Public
  • Get

• At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Man
  • Food
  • Best

• I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • People
  • Star
  • Sweet

• A true champion will fight through anything.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • True
  • Fight
  • Champion

• At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.

  

  La India
  • American
  • Listen
  • Jazz

• Panic! at the Disco, for me, has been an outlet to do whatever. I never felt like there were any rules. It was always carte blanche. I could do whatever I wanted. There were no rules set yet for the band. It just felt right.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Band

• I think they've really been worn down through the course of this game. It's been a terrific batting performance from Ricky, sensational in both innings.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Game
  • Performance
  • Innings

• The roots of defeat which were put down by some of the elements of our party in the two or three years after 1980 made victory difficult to achieve.

  

  Neil Kinnock
  • Party
  • Victory

• What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger...I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep...I'll draw you a fence for your flower...I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him...It's so mysterious, the land of tears.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Death
  • Planet
  • Hammer

• I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Death
  • Victory
  • Mood